The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire - their love triumphed over every obstacle flung in their path and in so doing they transformed their nation and inspired the world.
A United Kingdom is a Drama, History film released in 2016.
16 subtitle releases available in English. 8 releases include Hearing Impaired (HI) subtitles.
Movie Dialogue Sample
<font color="#ffffaa">To yourself?</font>
402
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,757
<font color="#ffffaa">Be somewhere and be something
that makes no sense to you?</font>
403
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:31,598
<font color="#ffffaa">Look at them.</font>
404
00:35:31,720 --> 00:35:33,598
<font color="#ffffaa">They are fighting because of you.</font>
405
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:37,440
<font color="#ffffaa">I mean you no harm.</font>
406
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:44,115
<font color="#ffffaa">Do you understand what mother,
<i>mother,</i> of our nation means?</font>
407
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:52,676
<font color="#ffffaa">I married Seretse's uncle
knowing my responsibility.</font>
408
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:58,437
<font color="#ffffaa">That one day Seretse's wife
would be chosen from our nation,</font>
409
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:00,432
<font color="#ffffaa">and I would hand over to her.</font>
410
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:05,279
<font color="#ffffaa">We have waited years for the day
we would see her rule by his side.</font>
411
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,315
<font color="#ffffaa">Your first duty is to your people.</font>
412
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:10,920
<font color="#ffffaa">Your nation.</font>
413
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:13,273
<font color="#ffffaa">Seretse, you're a son to me.</font>
414
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,592
<font color="#ffffaa">Please... be my son.</font>
415
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:26,560
<font color="#ffffaa">I will entertain you in my home,
if that is my husband's wish.</font>
416
00:36:27,240 --> 00:36:29,516
<font color="#ffffaa">But don't insult us.</font>
417
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:31,199
<font color="#ffffaa">It's...</font>
418
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:35,198
<font color="#ffffaa">audacious of you to come here,</font>
419
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:36,999
<font color="#ffffaa">and present yourself married,</font>
420
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:39,629
<font color="#ffffaa">as if it were your right to be our queen.</font>
421
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:43,358
<font color="#ffffaa">Who do you think will accept you? The men?</font>
422
00:36:45,240 --> 00:36:48,278
<font color="#ffffaa">- I...
- Us? The women?</font>
423
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,590
<font color="#ffffaa">To have a white woman who we must love</font>
424
00:36:51,720 --> 00:36:54,633
<font color="#ffffaa">and trust and respect as our sovereign?</font>
425
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,113
<font color="#ffffaa">Whoo.</font>
426
00:37:01,240 --> 00:37:04,233
<font color="#ffffaa">You belong to the whites,
but they won't want you, either.</font>
427
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:07,873
<font color="#ffffaa">You insult us all.</font>
428
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:16,159
<font color="#ffffaa">Let him go.</font>
429
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:18,554
<font color="#ffffaa">We need him more than you.</font>
430
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:24,989
<font color="#ffffaa">You will obey me,
and you will divorce her!</font>
431
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:27,674
<font color="#ffffaa">No, sir.</font>
432
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:29,875
<font color="#ffffaa">I will not.</font>
433
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,238
<font color="#ffffaa">Then listen to me, boy.</font>
434
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,236
<font color="#ffffaa">You will stand up
in the kgotla tomorrow...</font>
435
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:53,836
<font color="#ffffaa">and you will renounce your birthright.</font>
436
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:56,871
<font color="#ffffaa">And any right to the throne.</font>
437
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:15,238
<font color="#ffffaa">We've misjudged this, haven't we?</font>
438
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:01,513
<font color="#ffffaa">Would the British
have accepted it</font>
439
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:06,556
<font color="#ffffaa">if Princess Elizabeth had come here,
and taken one of us</font>
440
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:08,512
<font color="#ffffaa">as her husband?</font>
441
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,839
<font color="#ffffaa">A negro king of England. Can you imagine?</font>
442
00:39:14,240 --> 00:39:16,311
<font color="#ffffaa">She would have been refused!</font>
443
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:20,397
<font color="#ffffaa">Every right on her claim to the throne
removed from her!</font>
444
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,840
<font color="#ffffaa">Just as we must refuse my nephew here!</font>
445
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:28,077
<font color="#ffffaa">If he does not divorce this white woman!</font>
446
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:33,397
<font color="#ffffaa">Seretse... honour your people.</font>
447
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,276
<font color="#ffffaa">Do not belittle your kingdom!</font>
448
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:08,676
<font color="#ffffaa">Over there in
the royal burial ground lies my father...</font>
449
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:14,239
<font color="#ffffaa">his father and his father before him.</font>
450
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:19,237
<font color="#ffffaa">If I had married a woman
of my uncle's choo
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